I just love this 747-200F. Felis did such a good job.
The offending failing RAM stick has been removed and now my glorious remaining 48Gb can happily keep going and no more crashes!
Enjoying a quiet morning at Nairobi with my cargo brethren. Soon enough we get the first two engines going and the tow is ready to hook up.
The runway is delightfully close to the cargo apron and we need to go take-of from 05 anyway!
Lets get some speed and go up! Though the 747 rotates on the MLG for such a long long long time… It’s not rotate and up we goooo! Nope, she just balances there for a bit before she decides to go up.
Turning away from Nairobi and giving the CIVA decision rights on the bankangle.
Still climbing up we pass the Kilmanjaro massif. It’s so so large.
Soon enough a smaller mountain range is our next landmark before we hit the coast.
And a little while later we are over Zanzibar.
Just a vanity shot really.
Lets go land!
The vertical speed is so high, then again the approach speed is 152kts so yeaaaa. Loaded up fully with cargo which also doesn’t help I suppose.
Even minimal autobrake with spoilers and TR would be sufficient but I couldn’t help but manually applying some heavy braking. we did stop halfway down the runway! So hot right now…
All ready for the ground crew, not bad for a first parking job with this beast! she does turn no a dime due to the body steering.
Time to shut it down for the night.
Also, the replay was hilarious when I had everything setup for unloading at Zanzibar
One more hop to go to Madagascar! I think I am going to do it in the 200F because I am quite smitten with XP12. Just turn on the Orthostreaming to get that eye candy going!